I bought my first set up in about 15 years at the end of last year. I bought Blind wheels for £9 in a sale, I thought “wheels are wheels”.

Recently bought some Formula Four spitfires. Same hardness to the blinds and the difference is immense. Feels smoother, sounds quieter. They make my Blind wheels feel like something I’ve made by melting down coke bottles.

So buy good wheels. Skating is much more enjoyable with my nice wheels.

Started back up skating about a year and a half ago and it's been going well, but my stamina had sort of plateaued at a few hours or relatively short cruises (1-2mi).

For the past couple weeks, I've been cycling to work a few days a week, and I just did an 8mi cruise without even really feeling it or noticing. Before I knew it, I had made it the 4mi to the skatepark!

I suppose this is obvious, since biking works out those pushing muscles pretty good. Just thought I'd share for any folks getting back into it and having a tough time with regaining stamina.

Hi guys, I got back into skating 2017, been skating my whole life (39 years). I got the basic tricks down but no where near the amount I would like.

I think what’s holding me back is board control - so when learning new tricks or getting things consistent, I would say my body just does whatever and I hope to land whatever trick to luck.

I know the movement I’m meant to do for a variial flip for example but when I roll and actually try to piece the trick together my body just seems to do whatever movement it does.

Is there a way to work on board control or improve kinesthetics?